Time travel! Regrets will never happen again!

Japan naturally also knew about the severe drought and locust plague in the Central Plains Province, which left tens of millions of people homeless and millions wailing and waiting to die.

At this time, Central Plains Province was under the rule of Chiang Ting-wen, commander of the First War Zone.

In 41, after the Zhongtiao Mountain on the north bank of the Yellow River was lost in the 1st War Zone headed by Wei Junru, the defense of the Yellow River was threatened. Wei was dismissed from his post and Jiang Dingwen was transferred to Luoyang to succeed him as the commander-in-chief of the 1st War Zone and commander of the Hebei-Chahar War Zone, commanding the 1st War Zone's troops to fight against the Japanese army.

During his tenure as governor of the northwest, he abused his power to make a fortune from the national crisis. He was well aware of the policy of the No. 1 Preserved Fruit that his subordinates should be allowed to "only corrupt, not deteriorate", so he bent the law for personal gain, became corrupt, and indulged in prostitution and gambling, becoming a famous "corrupt general".

The private property that Jiang Dingwen amassed through corruption, bribery, and business speculation was enormous.

Moreover, this person was very fond of gambling. He would gamble tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time. Once, he even lost all the military pay of several months.

With such a person serving as the commander of the First War Zone, what hope can the common people have? The senior officials of Zhongyuan Province hope that this commander of the First War Zone will...

In view of the severe drought in Central Plains Province, the collection of some military rations can be appropriately reduced or exempted.

However, in the matter of the severe drought in the Central Plains, Li Peiji, the governor of the Central Plains Province, deliberately concealed the drought in the Central Plains Province in order to please Number One.

As the commander of the First War Zone, Chiang Ting-wen actually reported the disaster in Central Plains as soon as possible. Later investigations showed that Chiang Ting-wen, commander-in-chief of the First War Zone at that time, also reported the actual situation of the disaster, but because it was different from what the provincial government reported, he was reprimanded by the central government, and Chiang Ting-wen held a grudge against him.

Later, Chiang Ting-wen detained Peng Ruogang, the finance minister, and Lu Yuwen, the grain administration director, over the issue of military rations. His reason was, "I am only in charge of military affairs, and grain collection is the responsibility of the Central Plains provincial government. Knowing that the Central Plains was short of grain, the provincial governor reported that their harvest was good, so I could not ask for grain from other places. For the sake of military rations, they now have only two options: one is to resign, and the other is to give up grain."

It is because of the irresponsible behavior of a few bureaucrats that tens of millions of people in Zhongyuan Province have suffered from the disaster and millions of ordinary people are starving.

Finally, the army snatched away the last bit of life-saving food, and thus the worst events in the war of resistance, including many natural and man-made disasters, occurred.

This also led to countless people in the Central Plains Province forming self-defense armed forces to fight against Guofu's grain collection teams. The common people's resentment towards Guofu was even greater than that towards the Japanese.

General Okamura Yasuji, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invading army in China, accurately saw the situation in the Central Plains Province and felt that this was a good opportunity to defeat the First War Zone.

First, let the First War Zone fall into the quagmire of grain collection and resistance from the people of Zhongyuan Province, and then concentrate military forces to defeat the First War Zone, which has already been exhausted.

In addition, Commander Chiang Ting-wen is no longer as passionate and courageous as he was during the Northern Expedition. The current commander-in-chief has long since exhausted all his ideals in pursuit of money and wine.

Therefore, a combat order was issued to the Japanese First Army, hoping that they could launch a tentative attack on the area of ​​Zhongyuan Province close to Shanxi Province at the appropriate time.

But this has nothing to do with Wang Chun and his men. Attacking Zhongyuan Province was the Japanese's job.

Generally speaking, when attacking the regular troops of the National Army, especially the Central Army, the Japanese did not dare to send puppet troops into battle.

Although they were not required to go to the battlefield, when the main force of the Japanese First Army marched south to the Central Plains Province, these puppet troops had to cooperate with a small number of Japanese garrison troops to suppress the increasingly active Eighth Route Army and the National Army troops in Zhongtiao Mountain.

This time, Yoshio Shinozuka convened a combat meeting in Taiy, the capital of Shanxi Province. Wang Chun, who had been promoted to lieutenant general and division commander, was naturally qualified to participate.

It’s just that the Japanese didn’t allow them to attend important meetings and just asked them to wait for orders.

A large group of senior officers of the puppet army were drinking and gambling in Tai Y. Zhou Paopi looked at this young man who was his subordinate half a year ago, and couldn't help but patting Wang Chun on the shoulder and sighing!

"Brother! You are finally famous this time! But I still want to remind you, don't do such things. Countless people are watching you now, waiting for you to make a mistake!"

As the lieutenant general of the puppet army who had once saved his predecessor, Wang Chun was quite familiar with Zhou Paopi in front of him.

After all, he inherited all the memories of his predecessor, and the middle-aged man in front of him did not have any big ambitions.

He is considered a relatively shrewd person. He is tactful and will not offend others easily. Even though his former subordinate is now on an equal footing with him, he does not show a trace of jealousy.

Instead, he tried to persuade Wang Chun as soon as they met, reminding him not to be too high-profile, after all, he was among a bunch of evil spirits, bandits and traitors.

There is such a great saint like you, and Wang Chun has already made enough of a splash in the previous mopping-up operations. Not only does Qi Xieyuan value him, but the Japanese also look at him differently.

This made a group of puppet soldiers who only wanted to play badly, make money, and oppress the people very uncomfortable. Does your mother know that you are so outstanding?

You are so outstanding, are you trying to prove to others that we are all useless? Don't you know that a tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind, and a pile that stands out on the shore will be washed away by the current?

Forget about what happened before, but this time when you were faced with a large number of refugees coming from the Central Plains Province, the way we dealt with them was to drive them away, and some even shot them out directly.

Well, when it came to you, Li Dalong, the great philanthropist, you opened your warehouses to release grain, and even contributed the soldiers' rations to disaster relief and poverty relief, and even spent all your wealth to buy grain from all over the country.

How come you plan to be a traitor and then be a good person?

In fact, these high-ranking officials of the puppet army were ruthless when selling grain to Wang Chun at high prices, and they also sold the military rations of their subordinates to Wang Chun.

This really proves the saying that while eating the food you give me, I am cursing in my heart and even planning to take away all the pots in your house.

Originally, all these people were watching coldly, thinking that their prince would come and severely beat up this arrogant boy who was trying to win over the hearts of the people and undermine the foundation of the locust army's rule.

But at yesterday's meeting, the commander of the First Army, General Yoshio Shinozuka, actually praised this guy in front of everyone.

It is said that it was General Okamura Neiji's idea. Commander Okamura felt that Wang Chun's actions reflected the compassion for the people under the locust army's rule, especially when he heard that Wang Chun spent all his family wealth to help with disaster relief.

In the end, instead of receiving any punishment, this young guy was commended by Commander Gangcun and caught Gangcun's attention.

This time Wang Chun was promoted again. The pseudo-Shanxi Provincial Office established a security command, and he was promoted to deputy chief of staff of the security command and concurrently served as director of the military training department.

Wang Chun was also very depressed. What he had been doing was digging up the Japanese devils' ancestral graves, but the Japanese devils seemed to value him very much.

The speed of his promotion is almost like a rocket. Is he planning to end the war as soon as possible and become the chairman of the puppet government?

In fact, not only did Wang Chun feel that fate was playing tricks on him, but a guy who was bent on digging up other people's ancestral graves was actually hired back by the owner of the house to manage the digging tools in the house.

The Eighth Route Army heard that Wang Chun, this interesting little guy, had been promoted again, and was appointed as the deputy chief of staff of the security command of the puppet government of Shanxi Province, and also served as the director of the military training department.

How would the Japanese feel if they knew that the top-secret intelligence they had just conspired appeared in the Eighth Route Army headquarters?